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RIP trossi (Finnish scener)

It has just been announced today that trossi, one of the major people behind the first ever Finnish Amiga demo.

Not a lot is known about what happened; there was a report in a local newspaper and it is understood that he passed during January 11th, 2013.

I remember him personally from Alternative Party, specifically the 2003 edition when he had a Vectrex on the desk next to us at the venue, Gloria. I believe he'd written a demo on the Vectrex then which he released as part of the demo competition then.

I didn't know him personally all that well but he was a recognizable figure when I saw him at Alternative Party events over the years.

That's right. Timo did write the Amiga Monitor. I used amiga monitor to write my very first 68000 assembly. That must have been in the early 90s.

I first met him in person 98 or 99 (can't remember for sure) in Jyväskylä where I obtained some oscillator chips from him to overclock my A1200 accelerators. I was quite nervous to meet my hero, but he turned out to be extremely helpful and nice. He was the *true* geek. He had piles of all kind of weird gear all over the place.

I ran into him sporadically over the years, usually in some finnish parties. Last I had a good long chat with him during some altparty. He gave me a long & enthusiastic lecture of all the funky cool gadgets he had brought with him. I also saw a glimpse of the famous unreleased version of the Amiga Monitor.

not that I've knew him personally, but his "amiga monitor" was definitely one of the most used tools on amiga by a coders (and crackers) around the world. I would go that far to say that amiga scene wouldn't be the 1/10th of what it was (and still is) without that proggy.

I'm really sad to hear that he's gone. and, as it is always with my idols, would really like to know the whole story what happened, so if anyone finds out, please share.